Fig. 1: Flood occurrences across the 11 sub-basins of the Yangtze River Basin, from the upper to the lower reaches, span the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), the Little Ice Age (LIA), and the Current Warm Period (CWP) from 1000 to 2000 CE.
From: Anthropogenic transition in flood regimes: insights from a millennium of the Yangtze River records
The upper plot illustrates the variation in annual global temperature alongside the total annual flood occurrences. The lower panel presents flood regimes, with each point representing a flood event. Quantile density contours at 5% intervals are shaded from pink (5%) to red (95%), illustrating the gradient from poor to rich regimes. The right plot displays a histogram categorizing floods into mild, severe, and extreme for each sub-basin over the entire period.
